Book 2, Chapter 8, Edwy the Fair from 955 AD to 975 – Edwy the Fair
It is not clear whether Odo is chargeable with the deed, but that it was congenial to him is manifest from the terms in which it is spoken of by his monkish encomiasts and apologists. Soon afterwards Edwy died, either from grief or by assassination, being only nineteen years of age, and was followed by his brother Edgar, usually styled the Pacific, from the circumstance of no war having occurred during his reign. His disposition rendered him more acceptable to the priestly party than Edwy had been, and in his time the hierarchy attained to a position and influence which it had never attained before in England, and the effects of which were so important as to merit special reference.
Chapter 8, Edwy the Fair
Origin of Anglo Saxon Surnames
Conflicting Testimony Concerning Edwy
Incident on His Coronation Day
Edgar the Pacific
Chapter 8, Origin of Monasteries in England
Chapter 8, Dunstan
His Alleged Visions and Miracles
Becomes Abbot, Bishop and Archbishop
Chapter 8, Archbishop Dunstan and the Clergy
Aided by Bishops Oswald and Ethelwald
The Secular Clergy Supplanted by the Monks
The Worth of the Eulogies Pronounced on Him by the Monks
His Position Among the Anglo-Saxon Kings
Policy Towards the Danes of Northumbria
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